Premium, all-natural, family farm produced American lamb.
Great Midwest Lamb Company supplies the best products of America's family farms direct to you, the consumer, unique lamb products that you will enjoy every time, lamb products that you can feel safe cooking for yourself and your family and or sending as a gift to your friends and contacts.
We bring you the finest farm-raised premium lamb all raised on the green pastures of Ohio and Northern Appalachia. We ensure the highest quality standards of our all-natural lamb. Raised slowly and naturally by selected and traditional family farms, our lamb meats are unique by their taste and flavors!
To ensure the premium quality of the lamb we offer, we apply a rigorous set of self-imposed standards. We require the family farmers who produce lambs for us to follow these standards explicitly:
- We buy our lambs only from family farmers who agree to raise them traditionally and naturally. Each lamb gets individual attention and care, fresh air, space to graze and to exercise. Lambs are treated humanely.
- We supervise the family farmers who produce lambs for us to make sure they meet our standards. As an added check on quality, we conduct periodic random inspections of our contracted farms.
- We buy most of our lambs in the state of Ohio, where the vast majority of lambs are raised on family farms, and where a significant portion of the entire country's seed- breeding- stock producers are located.
- Our contracting farmers breed their high-quality ewes with rams whose genetic characteristics are approved by us and are known to produce desired qualities in the resulting lamb meat, like leanness and large loin eye area.
- Each lamb we buy carries a tag uniquely identifying it and the farm where it was raised, so we can trace back any lamb meat sold to the animal and the farm it came from.
- The lambs that we purchase are six to nine months old. This ensures the best compromise between size and tenderness.
- Our lambs are lean: we buy lambs displaying a maximum of 0.25" inches of back fat, measured at the 12-13th rib, when most lambs average between 0.25" and 0.45". Back fat is a good indicator of the overall leanness of a lamb.
- We assure tender, lean meat by specifying a strictly natural diet, with no artificial additives. After they are weaned, our lambs eat only the finest native grasses. Later, they also eat a mixture of whole grains to give their meat a consistent mild flavor.
- We ensure the health of our lambs and the safety of the lamb meat we sell in several ways:
- We allow farmers to use medicines only to fight sickness. If they do, the necessary withdrawal period must be respected. No lamb will be slaughtered while under medication.
- The farmers cannot give growth hormone to lambs, and they cannot administer sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics to stimulate growth. Our lamb is hormone free.
- USDA inspects all our lambs before and after processing. This control guarantees the absence of illness and contamination.
- In addition, our meats are processed by high quality plants, where each lamb is processed individually and manually. This adds the visual inspection of people who know and respect the lamb product.
- Our lamb is hand cut to perfection: among other advantages, hand cut lamb meat is juicier when you cook it.
Although these are our current lamb specifications, we continue to revise them upwards. Working with industry experts, we are continually devising the highest quality standards in the lamb meat industry. If you have any questions concerning our lamb quality standards, please contact us.
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